UCD Centre for the History of the Media

Forthcoming Conference at UCD: Exploring the Print World of Early-Modern Iberia, 20-21 May 2010.

Thursday 20 - Friday 21 May 2010: Exploring the Print World of Early-Modern Iberia. This conference intends to provide a showcase for the vibrant research currently being undertaken in early-modern Iberian print studies, to launch the UCD Iberian Project and to set out new avenues for research. ‘Exploring the print world of early-modern Iberia’ will bring to the fore new research into the printed book in Portugal and Spain and help situate the Iberian experience within a broad European context.

The conference is funded by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Brill Publishers and by the Instituto Camões in assosciation with the Portuguese Embassy in Dublin.

Speakers will include

Professor Artur Anselmo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ‘Le livre portugais et l´Humanisme”.
Professor Thomas Earle, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford, 'The Printed Book and National Identity in Early Modern Portugal'
Dr Marinela Garcia-Sempere, Universidad de Alicante and Dr Alexander Wilkinson, ‘Catalan language publishing before 1601’
Dr Clive Griffin, Trinity College, Oxford, ‘La cruz de Cristo: a strange case of printing in 16th-c. Seville'.
Dr Tess Knighton (Clare College, Cambridge), 'The dynamics of music printing in the Iberian Peninsula, 1535-1648' Professor Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews, 'North and South: Cultural transmission in the 16th century European Book World.'Professor Terrence O Reilly, University College, Cork, 'The printing and reception of vernacular religious texts in early modern Iberia (1480-1522): a case history'.
Dr Malcolm Walsby, University of St Andrews, ‘Printing at the periphery: exploring the small print domains of western Europe’.
Dr Alexander Wilkinson, University College Dublin ‘The Iberian Book Project: Past, Present and Future’

Anyone with an interest in early-modern print culture is warmly invited to register for the conference. To do so please contact Dr Sandy Wilkinson. There is no registration fee.

12-13 December 2008: Print Culture after Union: The Impact of 1707 and 1800 on the Book in Ireland and Scotland. The conference was organised jointly by the Centre for the History of the Media and by the Centre for the History of the Book (University of Edinburgh). The plenary speaker was Dr Charles Benson (Trinity College, Dublin). The archived programme for the conference can be found here. A report on the conference can be found here.

11-13 January 2007: Three-day conference on Mass Media and Propaganda during the Cold War. The archived programme can be found here.

24 February 2006 One-day conference on Censorship and Propaganda. The archived programme can be found here.